"Personally, I'd stop selling products, and support, in Europe and let them eat their Linux and Apple cakes. No need for source-code if you can't install software on missing operating system, no?"
This whole thing with dropping out of europe seems to be brought up everytime a ruling goes against a big company. They wont drop out of Europe, it's not like it's some tiny market that wont affect them by doing so.
Microsoft would lose more money by dropping their products from Europe than they would if they just paid their rightly given fine.
"This is total BS, I agree with Jesse, Microsoft should give a big FU to the EU and pull their product. Then what?"
It'd never happen, so there is no 'then what?' :P
Summers hit the nail on the head with this one, the EU is protecting the CONSUMERS, it's stopping Microsoft from using it's power to dominate in many different markets (thus being able to inflate prices).
Your either going to agree with it or not, but the EU is looking out for the consumers by stopping illegal activities - just because it's microsoft doesn't mean the EU should change it's laws to work around them...that's what America is for ;)
@Chris, "Apple simply needs to pull out of these countries."
It's not so simple when these European countries are some of the richest in the world, if Apple believed they wouldnt be affected by pulling out of these countries, they would have stopped selling by now.
They'll fight it or eventually agree to follow the European law or they'll take a huge blow in profits.
The price is going to be raised with every discussion made about the PS3 unfortunetly. YES its expensive (and for a games console...too expensive).
There are still plenty of people out there that can afford to pay $600 for it and they can and will more than likely buy the PS3 because of the brand name. Sure Sony will lose customers because of the price, but don't be so sure that they've gone and blown it - they'll no doubt sell out worldwide.
If homebrew community do take the PS3 as a new place to start developing, it could open the PS3 up to alot of very interesting stuff.
Not straight away, but once people start getting the hang of developing homebrew apps/games for the console, it would certainly ease the pain of paying $600 for a console.
EU hits Microsoft with $357 million fine
Jul 12th 2006 7:22PM (Engadget)This whole thing with dropping out of europe seems to be brought up everytime a ruling goes against a big company. They wont drop out of Europe, it's not like it's some tiny market that wont affect them by doing so.
Microsoft would lose more money by dropping their products from Europe than they would if they just paid their rightly given fine.
EU hits Microsoft with $357 million fine
Jul 12th 2006 2:41PM (Engadget)It'd never happen, so there is no 'then what?' :P
Summers hit the nail on the head with this one, the EU is protecting the CONSUMERS, it's stopping Microsoft from using it's power to dominate in many different markets (thus being able to inflate prices).
Your either going to agree with it or not, but the EU is looking out for the consumers by stopping illegal activities - just because it's microsoft doesn't mean the EU should change it's laws to work around them...that's what America is for ;)
Apple hit by Swedish anti-iTunes pressure
Jun 11th 2006 4:39PM (Engadget)It's not so simple when these European countries are some of the richest in the world, if Apple believed they wouldnt be affected by pulling out of these countries, they would have stopped selling by now.
They'll fight it or eventually agree to follow the European law or they'll take a huge blow in profits.
Sony clears up some PS3 confusion
May 19th 2006 11:39AM (Joystiq)There are still plenty of people out there that can afford to pay $600 for it and they can and will more than likely buy the PS3 because of the brand name. Sure Sony will lose customers because of the price, but don't be so sure that they've gone and blown it - they'll no doubt sell out worldwide.
Sony to support homebrew with Linux on PS3
May 16th 2006 12:58PM (Joystiq)Not straight away, but once people start getting the hang of developing homebrew apps/games for the console, it would certainly ease the pain of paying $600 for a console.